EDITOR'S NOTE, 1/15/2019: Since this blog post was published, the Malawi government has revised the Malawi Youth Forest Restoration Program. Now, $2 million will support youth in restoring more than 50,000 hectares of land, instead of $7 million to restore 125,000 hectares. This is still equivalent to 1.5 percent of the annual budget, and the government remains deeply committed to investing in natural resource management within the country. We have changed the text below to reflect the new budget numbers.

Nearly all –96％– of Malawi’s rapidly growing population depends on wood or charcoal for cooking. Meanwhile, land is continuously being cleared to grow crops, sincenearly 80 percent马拉维人依靠农业来生计。与撒哈拉以南非洲的其他国家一样，这两个因素对森林施加了压力，增加了气候温暖的排放，破坏了流域并减少了生物多样性。必威官网是真的吗

马拉维政府决心通过投资于自然资源管理的长期解决方案来打击这一潜在的灾难性趋势，并最近宣布200万美元（14.3亿马拉维夸莎）森林修复计划。For an emerging economy like Malawi, this is a huge investment equivalent to about 1.5 percent of thegovernment’s annual spending。

马拉维的青年成为中心舞台

Malawi’s Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining will use this substantial funding to implement the Malawi Youth Forest Restoration Program, recognizing that a sustainable future lies in the hands of the country’s youth, who need a bold demonstration of the value of forests. Under the new initiative, the Department of Forestry will work with the Ministry of Labour, Youth and Manpower Development to set up youth groups across the country. The young people will receive a daily wage for planting trees and, later on, the program will introduce bonuses based on how many trees survive and how much forest management improves.

这种家庭支持在马拉维恢复退化土地的国内支持是开创性的，即使是在非洲国家网络中，他们表现出了巨大的承诺通过AFR100计划。迄今为止，作为该倡议的一部分，包括马拉维在内的27个国家已承诺在2030年到2030年恢复1.11亿公顷（2.74亿英亩）在非洲的退化和森林砍伐的土地。more than one-third of the country’s land area. As a result, last year, Malawi’s government launched a first-of-its-kind国家森林景观修复策略，，，，which提供明确的目标和优先干预措施for increasing forest cover as a means of achieving critical development goals.

社区通过USAID的NJIRA项目在Khole流域的工作进行了不同的恢复技术。萨宾·雷（Sabin Ray/Wri）的照片
社区通过USAID的NJIRA项目在Khole流域的工作进行了不同的恢复技术。萨宾·雷（Sabin Ray/Wri）的照片

Ensuring Future Success by Measuring Progress

为了衡量青年森林修复计划和类似举措所产生的影响，马拉维最近成为第一个出版的AFR100成员国a national framework for measuring progress on restoration。The World Resources Institute and the USAID-PERFORM (Protecting Ecosystems and Restoring Forests in Malawi) project supported this effort.

The new framework focuses on collecting household data to show whether restoration is achieving its intended goals (see the graphic below). For example, if rural Malawians are spending less time on firewood collection, this may indicate an increase in the availability of energy resources such as wood or charcoal due to successful community forest management. Or, if a household is better able to weather climate shocks (such as drought or landslides), it may highlight that restoration practices are improving climate resilience. Practitioners leading restoration programs can use these data to learn from past successes or identify areas in need of additional support.

The framework measures whether the restoration programs are helping achieve the country’s seven national restoration goals.

检查数据突出了衡量进度以了解恢复计划的影响并知道需要更多投资的重要性。例如，2016年收集的家庭数据表明，每10个马拉维家庭中，只有不到一位收到当地推广人员的建议（与农民紧密合作以交流最佳实践的专业人员），如何更好地管理其森林和农业资源。但是在得到支持的人中，只有大约64％的人遵循有关林业管理的建议和50％的农业。在这两种情况下，妇女收到的建议频率都比男性少，但是她们更有可能遵循建议。这表明需要进一步投资扩展服务，更多地研究人们为什么采用恢复实践和更多资源来针对女性。

通过衡量进度将类似的重要见解带到了最初的发展，这有助于推动马拉维的成功恢复，使政府能够实现其国家恢复目标。

今年，马拉维青年森林修复计划计划恢复50,000公顷土地（超过124,000英亩）。年轻人将种植果树和竹子，学习如何管理当地的森林。马拉维（Malawi）衡量进度的新框架将支持政府，因为它希望增加这些类型的倡议并达到其450万公顷（1100万英亩）的恢复目标。马拉维的投资确实看起来很有希望。